The Modern Gilpin, Or, The Adventures of John Oldstock: In an Excursion by Steam from London to Rochester Bridge : Containing a Passing Glance at the Principal Places on the Thames and Medway : with NotesJ. Crocker, 1838 - 35 pages |
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... roll in mirth , And romp with right good - will . " And there's the princely pile of stone , ( 5 ) For British veterans reared , Whose fiery ardour long has flown- By foes no longer feared ! " Ah ! generous spot ! I love thee still 13.
... roll in mirth , And romp with right good - will . " And there's the princely pile of stone , ( 5 ) For British veterans reared , Whose fiery ardour long has flown- By foes no longer feared ! " Ah ! generous spot ! I love thee still 13.
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... beams withdraw , And loudly rolls the thunder . Chang'd is the aspect of the scene— Dark , heavy clouds impending ; The lightning's vivid flash is seen ; The rain is fast descending . 17 Friend John was one who seldom sighed At actions ...
... beams withdraw , And loudly rolls the thunder . Chang'd is the aspect of the scene— Dark , heavy clouds impending ; The lightning's vivid flash is seen ; The rain is fast descending . 17 Friend John was one who seldom sighed At actions ...
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... rolling . Some would have fum'd and made complaint , And wish'd them back in London ; This was his maxim - true , though quaint , - " What's done , cannot be undone . " PART VI . Ir rain'd until the Fort , ( 18 THE MODERN GILPIN .
... rolling . Some would have fum'd and made complaint , And wish'd them back in London ; This was his maxim - true , though quaint , - " What's done , cannot be undone . " PART VI . Ir rain'd until the Fort , ( 18 THE MODERN GILPIN .
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... roll'd the chaise to Lewisham , And cross'd the stream so bright , ( 15 ) And quick to the Kent Road it ran , Where Oldstock did alight . It struck eleven , when in the street , His shop - door John discerned ; And scarce within he'd ...
... roll'd the chaise to Lewisham , And cross'd the stream so bright , ( 15 ) And quick to the Kent Road it ran , Where Oldstock did alight . It struck eleven , when in the street , His shop - door John discerned ; And scarce within he'd ...
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Adventures of John BEQUEST OF EVERT Booksellers and Newsmen bright BRYDGES bustle by-gone Castle's chaise Charles II Chatham CONTAINING A PASSING Cray Crayford CROCKER cross'd dame Darent Dartford Creek DCCC XXXVIII dealer deep regret Deptford directing its course ditto....ditto Eight hundred sail EMINENT ARTIST ENTERED AT STATIONERS EVERT JANSEN WENDELL EXCURSION BY STEAM eye's fair far-fam'd Foolscap Friend John GARNAULT-PLACE Graces Gravesend Greenwich HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY hero hill and dale horse-shoe India Docks inviting Isle of Graine John Oldstock John's Kent Lewisham Limehouse LONDON TO ROCHESTER long by 63 lov'd a little Medway's merry MODERN GILPIN ne'er noble Northfleet Note o'er OLD COMPTON-STREET One-tree Hill pass'd PASSING GLANCE PATERNOSTER-ROW pier pleasure's post-boy's PURKESS quickly Ravensbourne river ROCHESTER BRIDGE runs sallies scene seem'd seen shop-door SOHO soon Spa-fields stanch old walls standing STEAM FROM LONDON steamer stream STREET Swift THAMES AND MEDWAY Tilbury town turn'd ween wide ditto Windmill-hill
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Page 5 - The wind did blow, the cloak did fly. Like streamer long and gay, Till, loop and button failing both, At last it flew away.
Page 34 - VIII., as a blockhouse; but it was enlarged and made a regular fortification by Charles II., after the Dutch fleet had sailed up the river, in the year 1067, and burnt 3 English man-of-war ships at Chathum.
Page 31 - ... the remotest part of the globe. The limits of the port reach from London bridge, to the North Foreland in Kent, and to the Naze in Essex ; but the ships trading to London, usually moor from the bridge to Limehouse, in which space it is computed that about 800 sail can lie afloat, at the moorings, at low water.
Page 32 - Greenwich, and doing this frequently, it was observed by the watermen plying there, who, following the dog, by that means discovered the body of the murdered man. Soon after the dog...
Page 5 - Seven-Dials ; An ebon nymph grac'd his shop-door — He dealt in rags and phials.